Room-temperature heterodyne detection up to 110 GHz with a quantum-well infrared photodetector

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2218-2220

  Grant, P D ^a   Dudek, R ^a   Buchanan, M ^a   Liu, H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charge carrier lifetime; Heterodyning; Infrared detectors; Quantum well device

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; HETERODYNING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

CHARGE CARRIER LIFETIME; PHOTOCURRENT RESPONSE; QUANTUM-WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 33750059448     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.884267     Document Type: Article

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